Nondominance In Goal Programming

AbstractThis paper investigates the notion of nondominance in goal programming (GP). Nondominance in the standard sense of a vector maximum (VM) problem is not always desirable. A definition of “GP-nondominance” and a test for determining whether an optimal GP solution is GP-nondominated are provided. It is demonstrated that one or more GP-nondominated solutions can be found by exploring the alternative optima of the GP solution. A formulation for determining the set of GP-nondominated solutions is provided and examples are used to illustrate the concept of GP nondominance.